Ideas for adding new features in the future

[limafresh]

The following features are really missing:

• Selection, rectangular and arbitrary
• Rounded rectangle and other missing shapes
• Inserting images (yes, you can do it via a sticker, but this is a slightly different function: they have a clearly defined size)
• Setting the number of undo/redo
• Halo is not only for recoloring brush, but also for regular brush, eraser and stickers

You can also write what is missing. Let's make Brushshe better!

04.05.2025

Setting the number of undo/redo is added!

01.06.2025

Halo for brush and eraser is added!

06.07.2025

Halo for stickers and text is added!
Rectangular selection is added!

[chipviled]

Ok, here's a few things that would be good to do:

Select System
Needed for copy and past part of picture and limited the brush by selected region.
The simplest variant (but not good): selecting rectangle on the current picture to the program buffer and insert as 'sticker'.
Normal variant: need use mask subsystem from tkinter, it's give create selected region by rectangle, by any polygon, by color, to add and to sub selected parts. With normal Select System R.brush will not needed.

Layers System
Needed for normal digital painting, usage modes (overlay, multiply...), masks, opacity, etc.
And the flat variant, and the tree variant is hard for creating. Need rewrite the base of program for use more the many pictures (as layers) one time and use some format for saving image with layers, like .ora https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenRaster

Config System
Needed for save and restore selected parameters of program.

Color Picker
Needed for convenient and interactive color selection. The current datapicker doesn't even allow you to change the current color, it is always reset to white and not show real color on the color circuit. A good option would be to make a dynamic triangle or square in the color wheel widget, like in krita or gimp.

Color Palette
The color palette needs to be redesigned to expand and change dynamically. It is also necessary to be able to save and load prepared palettes. Also save some last selected colors history is good idea too.

Crop tool, mirror tool, clone tool, etc
These tools needed as interactive on canvas. For interactivity, it need to add a subsystem to update_canvas to select what to delete and what not to delete.

Tablet Support (pressure)
A highly desirable thing. It can be started with adding change of brush size from pressing.

Multi-core rendering
The best option is to use paralleling of the canvas rendering process to all available CPU cores. In the current implementation everything is on one process of the program. It is not optimal. I don't know if tkinter supports this.

Brush engine
Not easy for realization and actually useless without Layers System and Tablet Support.

[limafresh]

Thanks for share your ideas!

• Saving a palette to a .brushshepalette, .txt or .json file was something I seriously wanted to implement in the latest version (v1.17.0), but decided to postpone it until the next version or even further. It would also be nice to add built-in palette sets, for example Material, old95, etc.
• Also, a long time ago, many months ago, I wanted to implement saving settings (themes, for example), but I never started doing anything in this direction. But I (or someone) will try to implement this, via json, config, db or something similar.
• It takes a lot of effort to implement layers and transparency, so I didn't even think about adding it.
• Tkinter does not support multi-core rendering, but I don't think it's a big problem, because you can add a lot of things without it.
• Mirror tool already exists: You need to open Add -> Effects -> Mirror !
• I agree that Color Picker needs some work. The original version from Akascape didn't even support color input by HEX code, but I added it. I also planned to add a random color button.
• Unfortunately, I can’t say anything about tablets, since I don’t have one.

[chipviled]

A image mirror and a canvas mirror are not exactly the same thing.
Actually it meant a mirror (symmetrical) drawing tool in general.

[limafresh]

It will also be necessary to add the selection of the config palette from the assets folder to the settings window. Yes, the develop branch already has the functionality of changing the palette, thanks to @chipviled. It is not a fact that I will add this to v1.18.0, which will be released soon, but I will most likely add it in the next one. Because only developers can use it for now, and .exe/.deb users (yes, v1.18.0 will be the first version for Linux) - cannot.